Piaget's Father Arthur Piaget was a professor of medieval literature. He was very dedicated to his work and passionate about his interest in local history. Piaget began to follow suit, he too was intrigued by history and at age 11 his fascination with mollusks lead to his short story being published. He even got his first part time job working at the Neuchatel museum of natural history.Here he is at age 10.
Piaget Aged 10
Piaget lifelong pursuit was to develop biological understanding of how children learn. He spent the most part of 75 years of life listening and watching children, even his own. He believed that children played an active role in their own cognitive development which lead him to identify the four stages of mental development and develop his theories on “schemas”. He is responsible for developing and creating interest in new fields of psychology such as cognitive theory, developmental psychology and genetic epistemology. His insight into children’s reasoning was described by Albert Einstein as being: “The idea of a genius, such simplicity”. Piaget created the International centre for Epistemology in 1955 and served as director until he died in 1980. He even has a society in his honour http://www.piaget.org/ (Muskingum.edu)
Piaget's Father Arthur Piaget was a professor of medieval literature. He was very dedicated to his work and passionate about his interest in local history. Piaget began to follow suit, he too was intrigued by history and at age 11 his fascination with mollusks lead to his short story being published. He even got his first part time job working at the Neuchatel museum of natural history.Here he is at age 10.
Piaget lifelong pursuit was to develop biological understanding of how children learn. He spent the most part of 75 years of life listening and watching children, even his own. He believed that children played an active role in their own cognitive development which lead him to identify the four stages of mental development and develop his theories on “schemas”. He is responsible for developing and creating interest in new fields of psychology such as cognitive theory, developmental psychology and genetic epistemology. His insight into children’s reasoning was described by Albert Einstein as being: “The idea of a genius, such simplicity”. Piaget created the International centre for Epistemology in 1955 and served as director until he died in 1980. He even has a society in his honour http://www.piaget.org/
(Muskingum.edu)
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